Quote Originally Posted by Yurimi View Post
This is actually a real life crime and can be punished as such depending on the country of the offender/country of the victim and whether extradition agreements are in place. It is just rarely enacted upon as most companies dont feel it worth the legal fees to push.
It's also extremely difficult to gather sufficient evidence and determine who is exactly responsible, and there are still plenty of countries that don't have appropriate levels of law to deal with cyber crime.

As for this instance; no they haven't told any lie. It seems like a script kiddie decided to make the server issues worse than they should have been, using the early access and influx of players to hide their activity.